SKILLS.
It takes skills to get the right job, skills to do the right job,
and skills to know what the next job should be. Leading information
professionals - all of whom have undergone personal journeys across
the expanding fields opening for us - will distill their experience
and share their understanding of the skills needed by today's and
tomorrow's information professionals. Attendees can expect to learn
specific tricks of the trade needed to get and hold the best jobs
available.
Most importantly,
the program is designed to teach all participants the single most
important lesson -- that the one job we can never afford to postpone
is the job of building our own careers. Today's superior may be tomorrow's
peer as we move up and out of our institution's org charts. Today's
vendor may be tomorrow's employer as we move across the expanding
information universe. Every decision made on the job is a career decision.
PROGRAM:
8:30am - 9:10am
Keynote: Steve Coffman
Overview - Current skills for the millennium
The next big thing, the next "must-learn" technology, who
really knows what Steve Coffman will come up with? But it will be entertaining
and informative nonetheless.
9:15am - 10:00am
Jennie Starr (Consultant) & Chip Nilges (OCLC)
Jennie Starr is currently doing freelance writing and
web site
development and marketing for small businesses. She has worked as an
Applications Consultant for LexisNexis with law, accounting, and large
consulting firms and law schools and as Director, Product Marketing
for
several San Diego software companies. She holds a MS in Library and
Information Sciences as well as a JD. [PowerPoint
Presentation]
Chip Nilges is currently director, WorldCat reference and
resource sharing
services
at OCLC. As director of new product planning, Chip led the OCLC
team that worked with the Library of Congress to create the QuestionPoint
collaborative reference service. His current responsibilitiesinclude
WorldCat
on FirstSearch, the FirstSearch platform, and the OCLC ILL service.
Chip holds
an MBA in marketing and an MA in renaissance literature, both from the
Ohio
State University.
Online
skills for the new century, from a trainer's perspective:
- What skills you feel your customers should possess, both before and
after training;
- Recurring bad habits and common gaps in your customers' knowledge;
- What a vendor expects the client to know and do during contract negotiations;
AND
- Online product certification programs for customers (similar to Cisco,
Novell, and Sun certification).
10:20am - 11:00am
Monica Ertel, Consultant
Monica
Ertel was the Director of Research for Korn/Ferry International,
the world's largest executive search firm. She was responsible for
leading KFI's research and knowledge management efforts. She is
currently an independent consultant. [PowerPoint
Presentation]
Employment - The current job market,
and how to recognize a job we're qualified for, even if it's not a librarian
job.
How to search for and land jobs that employ traditional librarian skills,
but are dressed up in thick techie-speak. Many of us can do those jobs
easily, if we could only translate the ads! Also, how do we communicate
confidently in an interview for a "non L-word" job, if all
we know is reference, circulation and acquisitions? Monica will address
these issues - in non-techie speak!
11:05am - 11:45am
Ron Rodriguez, Chapman University
Experiences in different types of libraries
Ron Rodriguez has seen and done it all - in libraries, that is. He's
worked in just about every kind of information environment, and he's
here to share with us the skill set he feels is common to all of them.
This information will be helpful to the newbie fresh from library school
as well as the seasoned professional looking for a change.
11:45am - 12: 30pm Wrap-up Panel: Q&A with all our presenters
